Three-bed Ashleigh semi in a great location

JUST parallel to the Skehard Road in Cork, and with south-facing back gardens, is 20 Ashleigh Gardens, near amenities in Blackrock, Ballintemple and Douglas, as well as Mahon’s shopping centre and employment base.

This extended three bed semi is in a mix of houses with an architectural feature that’s quite up-to-date, but with a 1970s’ provenance — cedar planking as a facade treatment.

Cedar sheeting was all the design rage in the noughties, but really it was only aping an earlier heyday of perhaps four decades earlier.